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The Web Security Mailing List

"Data breaches continued to make their very public mark on cybersecurity
news in 2008. And this time it wasn't TJX making headlines. Despite
being PCI compliant, Hannaford Brothers supermarkets announced that 4.2
million credit and debit card numbers were pilfered from its servers.
We also learned in 2008 that attackers aren't necessarily becoming more
sophisticated. The cause of many data beaches and the deluge of
phishing, spam and malware attacks suggest something else is going on.
Automated toolkits are being bought and sold in online forums fueling
the scope of many attacks. Although it's an old-school method, SQL
injection attacks work and hackers use them to pull off hundreds of
thousands of successful attacks against vulnerable websites and their
visitors. And finally, Dan Kaminsky signaled a dire warning about a
major DNS cache poisoning vulnerability. It wasn't the apocalypse, but
the security researcher demonstrated that weaknesses exist in the
fundamental way the Internet works."